The first half was great with Alonso and Michael really being the class of the field. Great duel between the best two drivers in the sport.
Then Michael retired, ending the championship and excitement in this race.

Somewhere between a 3 and a 4. There was no real drama or expectation. There was a surprise, but it took the stuffing out of the championship fight. Brazil is going to be uninteresting, but for the macabre hope that Alonso dnf's and MS wins, not because I care who wins the WC; but because it would be the most ridiculous end to a season ever.

Originally posted by slick1jayj The tv race director should have been shot. That had to be one of the worst directed Grand Prix of the year.

Quite! Appalling. Can the FIA or Bernie not give instructions saying that simply concentrating on your own country's teams or drivers will be punished in the same way that politicising podium ceremonies is.

This is not a nation v nation sport, and this British viewer supports a German driving an Italian car. We are not all raving nationalists, and the TV production should not be directed as such.

Originally posted by RDM Quite! Appalling. Can the FIA or Bernie not give instructions saying that simply concentrating on your own country's teams or drivers will be punished in the same way that politicising podium ceremonies is.

This is not a nation v nation sport, and this British viewer supports a German driving an Italian car. We are not all raving nationalists, and the TV production should not be directed as such.

Or how about a director & steward set that goes to every race & has no bias what so ever because their job would be on the line?

BTW I don't think we where robbed of too much (regarding a final showdown) by MS engine blow-up. Everything indicates that Ferrari have the better package and if MS would have gone to Interlagos with a two (effectively three) point lead, the WDC would have been almost as sealed as it appears today. Especially because then we would still have considered the chance of a Ferrari breaking down close to zero - unlike now ;)

The perfect result in Suzuka would have been 1. FA, 2. MS, so that the faster combination would have to do the catch-up, but that never looked likely.